Posts tagged "cask ale"

What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Our brewery, the Lerwick Brewery, is so called as we are based just outside Lerwick in Shetland. What is your brewery capacity? Our current brew length is 2000 litres or 12 barrels, with the ability to hold 22000 litres of beer at different stages […]

Following on from the news that Truefitt were opening a new bar in Northallerton I’m pleased to say it’s now open. Headed up by Mother and Daughter team Steph and Val Truefitt and with beers supplied by Steph’s husband Matt it really is a family run business. With 3 cask ales, 2 craft lagers and 1 […]

I first met Matt from Truefitt when he was working at Captain Cooks Brewery in Stokesley, he’s since become a good friend and client (we do his branding, labels and pump clips). As a result I’ve never really written that much about his beers on here, apart from the odd mention in my Golden Pints, […]

For those of you who’ve not already seen its the marble arch 125 year anniversary this year and to celebrate they’ve got a whole host of events planned, one of which is a beer festival tuning from 1st – 4th August. As part of this festival they asked 25 people to pick their 5 favourite […]

What is your name? Campbell Morrissy (American), David Ross (Scottish), Patrick Howell (Canadian), and Bruce Smith (Scottish). We are all Brewing & Distilling MSc students at Heriot-Watt University. What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Natural Selection Brewing. I don’t quite know the origin, I guess it just evolved. (I love […]

Gateshead beer festival is ran over the May Day Bank holiday weekend (3rd to the 5th of May this year), They have about 60 pumps on at any one time and over the space of the weekend they should have about 140 different beers available. They are supporting local brewer and breweries from across the […]

When Matt from Truefitt brewing asked for people to go give him a hand brewing a special double india pale ale for his 50th brew there was no way I was going to miss it, even if I had drank far to much gin the night before. We arrived at the brewery just before 8am […]

A couple of weeks ago I received an email asking if I was available to take part in the Sharp’s connoisseur choice cook off final, apparently the recipe I’d submitted on Sharp’s Facebook pagehad been chosen by 2 michelin star chef Nathan Outlaw to represent him in the final. It seemed like far too good of an […]

What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Axholme Brewing Company. It is named after where I live, the Isle of Axholme (an inland river island in North Lincolnshire) What is your brewery capacity? 2.5 brewers barrels, or 410L if you prefer. What is different about your brewery? Our small size allows […]

What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Old Worthy Brewing Co. I used to work in the scotch whisky industry and the old boys who worked at our distilleries had cracking stories of the whisky men from another era who mischievously helped themselves to the distillery ‘wash’; a form of ‘beer’ […]